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State DepartmentPress Release
Breaks With Gobbledygook
By Garnett D. Horner
A State Department tradition
against using plain, everyday lan
guage in its formal announcements
was shattered last night.
The department’s young Foreign
Service Institute linguistic scien
itists aid it.
In teaching foreign languages to
people goinfe abroad for the Gov
ernment, they emphasize learning
to talk the way ordinary people do.
They put that principle to work
in writing an announcement about
a new course, released to the press
last night.
In sharp contrast to the usual
gobbledygook of diplomatic double
talk in State Department press re
leases, this one used the language
of the man in the street, cliches
and all.
It said the Foreign Service Insti
tue, which for the past year “has
gone all out” to provide instruction
| in some 36 languages for overseas
1 personnel, has “launched a course
in a real ‘toughie’—Arabic.”
"The textbook is tossed out the
window,” in this new course, the
announcement added. Five foreign
service officers taking the six-month
course are concentrating on the
(spoken language, “with the objec
I tlve of speaking Arabic as the Arab
speaks It" and learning “to make
sense of what they hear in the
streets of Damascus, Jidda, Baghdad
or Cairo.”
Dr. Charles Ferguson, 26-year
old Philadelphian who made records
of Arabs talking in the Near East
last year, is supervising the instruc
tion.
“His students,” the announcement
said, "won’t see an alphabet until
the course is three-fourths com
pleted; Nor will there be much in
the way of writing, since his theory
is that language is the noise you
make with your faces and not the
scratches you make with your fist.”
The classical Arabic written lan
guage has such prestige that radio
program in Arab countries are writ
ten in the classical style which “only
the educated can understand.”
That “classical” language must be
to vernacular Arabic something
like what the usual State Depart
ment press release language is to
every day American, but last night’s
tradition-shattering release didn’t
say so. _
Maryland Home Tours
To Continue Today
The 11th annual Maryland House
and Garden Pilgrimage, which
opened yesterday, will continue
today in Montgomery and Charles
Counties. Howard County and
suburban Baltimore will be toured
tomorrow. ~ -
A similar tour of historic show
places is being conducted this week
in Virginia.
Among homes to be open in Mont
gomery County are Ishplning, Chevy
Chase home of Mrs. William S.
Corby; Llewellyn Fields, owned by
Mrs. E. Brooke Lee; Little Olney, a
restored house formerly owned by
the Farquhar family; Wood End,
owned by Capt. and Mrs. Chester
Wells, and the Rolling Ridge Farm,
built in 1789 and owned by Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Small, III
Historic estates which may be vis
ited in Charles County include
Araby, built between 1685 and 1715
and owned by Admiral and Mrs.
Frank Jack Fletcher; Rose Hill,
owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Case;
Mt. Republic, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. R. Kennedy Hanson, and Oak
Grove, once the property of lord
Baltimore and now owned by Mr.
and Mrs. George Barnes.
The tours in both counties will be
conducted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tickets may be obtained at any of
the estates. Proceeds will be used
for the maintenance of the Ham
mond-Harwood house in Annapolis,
built in 1774.
Academy PTA to Hold
Mother-Daughter Night
The Academy of Holy names will
hold a Mother-Daughter Night at 8
p.m. tomorrow at the Chevy Chase
Woman’s Club, sponsored by the
Parent-Teacher Association.
The program will include a style
show with Miss Meredith Young as
mistress of ceremonies. Miss Peggy
Wilson, who was Miss Washington
of 1947, will be one of the models.
General chairman of the event is
Mrs. Albert L. Maserick._
Army Medical Center
Graduates 27 in New
Basic Science Course
Twenty-seven Army doctors were
graduated yesterday from the first
General Basic Science Course at
the Army Medical Department Re
search and Graduate School, Army
Medical Center.
Pioneer students under what Maj.
Gen. Raymond W. Bliss, Army Sur
geon General, termed an “impor
tant departure in medical teach
ing,” the doctors had completed a
16-week course for which the guest
faculty included more than 50 lead-4
ing United States and Canadian
doctors and scientists.
Gen. Bliss called the instruction
one phase of a “rehabilitation proc
ess of the Army Medical Depart
ment” and expressed strong hope
that the other armed forces will
co-operate in similar courses in the
future.
Cherney Delivers Address.
The course was intended to pre
sent a correlated picture of rela
itons between the basic medical and
allied sciences.
Dr. Alan M. Chesney, dean of
Johns Hopkins Medical School,
made the graduation address.
Discussing postgraduate medical
education, he declared it is more
important to give students an in
terest in becoming “students all
their lives" as they practice their
profession than to define the “form
fo postgraduate education.”
He deplored too much “formaliza
tion" of the studies of those who
wish to become specialists, as a
result of the training suggestions
of some of the boards which give
specialists’ examinations.
Urges Freedom to Experiment.
“The freedom of the individual
to experiment with his own educa
tion should not be interferred with
by the speciality boards,” he de
clared. /
Col. Prank L. Cole, chief of sur
gical consultants in the Surgeon
General’s office, presented the Hoff
Medal to Lt. Col. Otto A. Wurl,
Council Bluff, Iowa, as the ranking
student of the graduating class.
The medal, given to top studefits
of Medical Center postgraduate
courses of unusual Importance, last
was awarded in 1939.
CeL Moursund Gives Diploma.
Col. Raymond E. Duke, chief of
the Education and Training Divi
sion, Office of the Surgeon General,
introduced Dr. Chesney. Col. Wal
ter H. Moursund, Jr., director of
the Basic Science Course, presented
the diplomas.
The class included all ranks from
first lieutenant to colonel.
Col. Vinnie H. Jeffress, 1327 Co
lumbia road, N.W., was a member
of the group.
Bible Done in Pictures
NASHVILLE UP).—Mrs. Thomas
Farmer has completed 10 years
work which produced a picture
story of the New Testament. The
books, all hand-painted with hand
lettered Bible quotations, will be
used for the Bible education of her
four small chidlren. Mrs. Farmer
has been totally deaf since she was
a baby.
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ST. CLAIR, Mich., April 24.—A
: Canadian tanker and a 10,000-ton
freighter collided on the fog-shroud
ed St. Clair River, three miles south
of here, late today.
Both vessels were badly damaged,
but none of the crew was hurt,
State police reported.
The ships rammed each other al
most head on.
Persons on the shore of the river
said they heard a series of signals
sounding between the ships before
they collided.
The tanker, the John Irwin of the
Canadian Oil Co. of Montreal, was
reported to have a gaping hole on
her port side.
The freighter, the Harry Findlay,
owned by the Kinsman Transit Co.
of Cleveland, had a damaged bow.
Authorities said the Canadian
Ship was heading downstream, to
ward Detroit. The freighter was
traveling in the opposite direction.
Mexico expects to increase wheat,
com and rice production this year.
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